Australia Confidential patient records exposed online for over a decade

17:06 04 august 2018

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Your browser does not support this video South Australia Health has been forced to apologise for a major privacy breach that has seen the confidential names and test results of more than 7200 children published online for more than a decade.

The breach relates to those who were treated at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital for gastro, whooping cough and respiratory infections between 1996 and 2005.

The confidential information, which included names, birthdates and test results was accidentally embedded in a powerpoint presentation on infectious diseases and published on the hospital's website in 2005.

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More than 7000 women's and children's hospital records were left in an online powerpoint for more than a decade . Picture: 9NEWS. More than 1000 confidential patient documents dating between 1992 and 2002 were found on the floor of the abandoned Garrawarra Centre for Aged Care in

Confidentiality in health care refers to the obligation of professionals who have access to patient records or communication to hold that HIPAA has evolved during the past decade and was greatly fortified by the 2009 HITECH Act and its HIPAA modification regulations released in January 2013.

"Firstly I would like to apologise to the patients for this error... this is a regrettable incident from our perspective," said Phil Robinson, the Executive Director at the Women's and Children's Hospital.

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"We have spoken to the author and they are very surprised that this has happened because it was completely inadvertent.

"I do wish to emphasise that... there's been no breach of our patient information systems."

SA Health has found six other online presentations with similar data links that have now also been taken down.

"We will now need to ensure that no one is putting any identifying data into these spreadsheets," it said.

SA Health also said it hasn't individually contacted the thousands of patients impacted by the breach because the sheer number of people and age of the data make it too difficult.

The major breach comes just a day after the New South Wales Government announced an audit of its state medical records following a similar controversial release of patient data.

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Under NSW State Archives & Records protocol, state health documents can only be held for a minimum of 10 years after a patient's last attendance or contact with the facility.

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(a) Psychologists may disclose confidential information with the appropriate consent of the organizational client, the individual client/ patient or another legally authorized person on behalf of the client/ patient unless prohibited by law.

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After that point, they are then required to be destroyed - however almost two decades after the Garrawarra Centre was abandoned - the documents uncovered in Helensburgh had not been.

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(a) Psychologists may disclose confidential information with the appropriate consent of the organizational client, the individual client/ patient or another legally authorized person on behalf of the client/ patient unless prohibited by law.

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